Events

9/17–11/12 Less for More: Collective Visions for a Climate Conscious Future

Held alongside Associate Professor Pamela Karimi's course Designing Deserts: Architecture, Ecology, and Imagination in Arid Lands, this lecture series explores experimental design in drylands and beyond.

9/23 Marisa Morán Jahn: Art and Micropublics

Learn how Jahn's participatory artworks engage micropublics through storytelling, advocacy, and design to yield surprising and imaginative outcomes.

9/25 Claire Weisz: People, Places, and Events — Recent Work of WXY

Claire Weisz, Strauch Visiting Critic in Sustainable Design and founding partner of WXY, will present a lecture on architecture's potential to shape experiences and communities across scales.

9/26 Jayme Breschard: Forging Resilience — Leading Climate Adaptation Through Innovation and Collaboration

Gain actionable insights into adaptive leadership, the value of interdisciplinary approaches, and strategies for driving transformative, equitable change in the face of climate uncertainty.

10/2 Teiger Mentor in the Arts Lecture: Erika Ranee/Paintings

Erika Ranee presents her work chronologically, beginning with her early representational paintings from the 1990s and continuing with her current abstract paint explorations.

10/3 Richard S. Booth: Confronting Climate Change — Lessons From the Adirondacks

Attend a lecture examining how New York State’s half-century of land use management in the Adirondack Park offers critical insights for addressing today's climate crisis.

10/8 Talia Moore: A Taxonomical System for Bio-Inspired Design Strategies

Assistant Professor Talia Y. Moore (University of Michigan) will present a taxonomy of biodesign approaches, showing how bio-inspired strategies can simultaneously advance robotics and biological research.

10/17 Matthew Rosenbloom-Jones: A Brief Introduction to All Aspects of Transit Planning, Operations, and Management

Join TCAT General Manager Matthew Rosenbloom-Jones for a colloquium on the fundamentals of transit operations and planning, inviting students to deepen their understanding of transit's role in cities.

10/24 Danny Pearlstein: Congestion Relief and New Yorkers' Fight for Afforable, Reliable Public Transit

Attend a discussion examining the role of grassroots advocacy in advancing congestion pricing and fare equity in New York City, highlighting the ongoing struggle for affordable, reliable public transit.

10/28 Michael Wang: Human Nature

In Human Nature, artist Michael Wang explores how technology, extraction, and care shape our relationship with nature through works that examine ecology, energy, and climate.

10/31 Samina Raja: Planning [for Urban Agriculture] as Public Nurturance

Dr. Samina Raja presents a care-centered approach from her book Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture that empowers marginalized communities to codesign equitable food and planning systems.

11/4 Maria Park: Diagram as Medium

Hear a lecture by Associate Professor of Art Maria Park, focusing on her fall exhibition, Field Diagram, which presents the diagram as a shifting field, one where the lines are continuously drawn and redrawn.

11/7 Isaac Robb and Annie Pease: America Has Only Three Cities — New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everything else is Cleveland.

11/14 Jordan Exantus: Unwriting History — Navigating Intersectionality and the [Un]intended Consequences of Planning in Majority "Minority" Communities

Attend a discussion exploring how conventional planning has often perpetuated historical inequities through systemic oversight, assimilation pressures, and inadvertent cultural displacement.

11/21 Jeff Chusid: The World Through a Preservation Lens

Associate Professor Jeffrey M. Chusid reflects on how historic preservation reveals the values, stories, and conflicts embedded in places, offering insight into cultural exchange, creativity, and the shaping of communities.